Dan R. Reaser

Dan has practiced regulatory and government relations law for more than thirty years. His clients are in the commercial gaming industry, telecommunication, energy and water utility companies and their customers, and financial services institutions.

He focuses on helping businesses with transactions, regulatory compliance and in licensing and other proceedings before administrative agencies or other government bodies. Dan also has experience in government procurement disputes, judicial review of government action, and eminent domain cases.

Dan served in the Office of the Attorney General for Nevada as Chief Deputy for the Gaming Division, where he represented the Nevada Gaming Commission and the Nevada State Gaming Board. He was Chief Counsel to the Nevada Department of Transportation. During his tenure as a deputy attorney general, Dan was counsel to the Nevada Commissions on Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Protection, and the State Departments of Agriculture, Corrections, Minerals and Wildlife.

Areas of Practice

Representative Cases

2018 engagement as counsel for Tronox, LLC in sale of Electrolytic Division to EMD Acquisition LLC.

2018 representation of MHM Solutions, Inc. in successful cancellation of contract award for temporary medical services by Nevada State Purchasing Division based on violation of state procurement laws.

Nevada special gaming counsel on 2018 working capital loan by international investment bank to holding company of publicly traded multi-jurisdictional gaming resort hotel company.

2017 officer and director licensing and public share redemption transaction approval by Nevada Gaming Commission for Tracinda Corporation as controlling shareholder the Estate of Kirk Kirkorian and largest private holder of equity stock in MGM Resorts International.

Separate engagements during 2017 for a multi-property resort hotel firm, a gaming technology company, and a skill-based mobile games platform operator on multi-jurisdictional gaming regulatory matters relating to various social gaming and sports wagering platforms.

2016 negotiation for City of Boulder City of Post-2017 Hoover Power electric service contract and related agreements with United States Bureau of Reclamation and Western Power Administration.

2015 passage for the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers of Senate Bill 9 and related adoption of Nevada Gaming Commission regulations authorizing development and play in Nevada of electronic skill-based games.

Panelist, "Post-2017 Hoover Power Contracting: Building a Framework for Challenges of Delivering Hydropower for the Next Fifty Years," State Bar of Nevada Section on Energy, Utilities and Communications Law Section Annual Conference, April 29, 2016

Panelist, "Regulatory Developments on Skill Based and Hybrid Games," International Masters of Gaming Law, Spring Meeting, April 22, 2016

Advisory Board, UNLV Gaming Law Journal, William S. Boyd School of Law

Visiting Instructor, Judicial Studies Program on Gaming and the Law, National Judicial College

ADMISSIONS

California

Nevada

U.S. District Court, District of Nevada

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

OUTSIDE THE OFFICE

Dan spends his leisure time on the trails and waterways of the "Range of Light" (John Muri, The Yosemite, 1912). A worn pair of Vasque boots, a red Loon 111 kayak, snowshoes and a Rockhopper mountain bike are at the ready in every season.